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		simonw 20 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for sp... Calculating price increases is made more complex by the difference in token usage. From https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-3-flash/ : > Gemini 3 Flash is able to modulate how much it thinks. It may think longer for more complex use cases, but it also uses 30% fewer tokens on average than 2.5 Pro.

Tiberium 20 days ago [–]

Yes, but also most of the increase in 3 Flash is in the input context price, which isn't affected by reasoning.

int_19h 20 days ago | [–]

It is affected if it has to round-trip, e.g. because it's making tool calls.

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